Henry Miller - The Trial
Friday, November 6, 2009
- Location -
Holiday Inn Albany--Wolf Road
205 Wolf Road
Albany, NY
(518) 458-7264
7.5 TOTAL CREDITS
6.5 credit hours in skills; 1.0 credit hour in ethics
8:30 – 9:00
a.m. Registration (outside
meeting room)
9:00 – 12:45 p.m.
A.
The Prologue
• The Trial is the Thing
• Preparing for the Role
• Henry’s Rules on Setting the
Stage
B. Jury Selection
• The 44 blunders
(some)
• Trusting You
• Confess Weakness
• Sound the Theme
C. Opening – The Twenty-Seven Steps (Some)
• A Persuasive Story
• Make Weakest Point Strongest Point
• Talk Like a Human Being
• Demonstration
D. Direct Exam
• The thirty-one
pertinent pointers (some)
• Preparing the witness
• Getting off the stage
• Leading questions
• Show don’t tell
E. Cross-Examination
• Four Rules – But with a But
(some)
• Pin Down
• Ideas Not Notes
• Impeachment
• Save the Zingers
Note: There will be a 15 minute
refreshment break during the morning session.
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch
(on your own)
2:00 – 5:00
F. Experts
• Twenty Pungent Proverbs
(some)
• The Daubert Debacle
• Conviction
• A Teacher
• CBS (Compression, Brevity, Simplicity)
G. Summation
• An Outline
• Anticipate the Judge’s Charge
• Find the Winning Reason
• Demonstration
H. The Ordeal
• The Charge: Objections
• Waiting for the Verdict: Questions and Readbacks
• Motions
I. Ethics (50 minutes)
• Professionalism, yes
• Rambo, no
• Honoring Your Client
• Honoring the Court
• Honoring Yourself
J. Surviving
• Living with Defeat
• The Old Trial Lawyer
• The Young Trial Lawyer
K. Trials of Oscar Wilde and Alger
Hiss
Note: There will be a 15 minute
refreshment break during the afternoon session.
5:00
p.m. Adjournment
The
Presenter
Henry G. Miller has
been actively trying cases for over 40 years.
A senior member of
Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, P.C., in White Plains, Henry Miller
represents plaintiffs in a wide range of areas, including product
liability, commercial, medical malpractice, automobile, premises,
construction, ex abuse, legal malpractice, discrimination,
whistleblower, real estate, dram shop and estate disputes.
Henry Miller is
Past President of both the New York State and Westchester County Bar
Associations. He is one of very few trial attorneys in the country
who was both a Regent of the American College of Trial Lawyers and
a Director of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, two of the
most prestigious national trial lawyer associations. He has been an
Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s Law School. Henry Miller
frequently appears on television and radio and has written extensively
on trial practice.
He is the author of
Settlements in the Art of Advocacy series as well as the editor of the
New York Practice Guide on Negligence, both published by Matthew
Bender and most recently he authored, On Trial: Lessons from a Lifetime
in the Courtroom, published by ALM Publishing. He has written the Ethics
Chapter in the American Trial Lawyers Association’s text on
Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Litigation called “Atla’s
Litigating Tort Cases.”
Additional
Speaker
Long Island
only: Emmet J.
Agoglia, Esq., Agoglia, Holland & Agoglia, P.C.,
Jericho
The last day to pre-register online was November 5, 2009.
Members, please login to get member discounts.
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